Intentional childhood injuries in Greece 1996-97 - Data from a population-based Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS)

Abstract

In Greece. a problem of violence directed against children does exist. The actual magnitude of this problem is difficult to estimate, but its size appears to be smaller in comparison with that reported in other populations.

Childhood injuries in Greek school environment

“…Most of the evidence of the current research, concerning selected aspects of factors that contribute to a school accident, confirms previous results (Laflamme et al 1998, Petridou et al 2001, Gofin et al 2003, Sosnowska and Kostka 2003. Accidents that occur in school are the most serious topics that any society has to deal with since it is well known that the future citizens of the world must be prepared through education in a safe school environment.…”

“…Greece is in fourth place in a classification of countries considering the unintentional injury mortality of children 0 -14 years old during 1984-1993(Petridou et al 2001.…”

A review of injury epidemiology in the UK and Europe: some methodological considerations in constructing rates

“…38100 per 100,000 person year and children with younger parents/low income, i.e. OR = 1.33/1.37, p = 0.005/0.03 [ 74 ] and among migrant children [ 75 ]. All the studies underline boys and/or older children age 10–14 y as being at higher risk for both fatal and non-fatal injuries [ 69 - 77 ].…”

“…North American literature shows that combining trauma registry data with pre-hospital deaths (coroner's department or medical examiner's data [ 91 - 93 ]) allows computation of major trauma death and morbidity rates. Some others authors use questionnaires to collect information on socio-demographic characteristics of the patient and injury details in studies of children under treatment or admitted to a hospital [ 76 ], patients admitted to a hospital and a sample of patients treated by general practitioners [ 81 ], or children treated at an emergency department only [ 58 , 75 ]. Questionnaires of self-reported illness as a primary data source have the advantage that the items to be collected can be tailored to specific research questions, but are time consuming to administer and usually involve smaller sample size compared to secondary data (data collected by people other than the researcher in question, for example, public vital statistics records).…”